Ashes to Diamonds: The Creation Process

How is ashes turned into diamonds?

In order to create something as truly beautiful and heartfelt as your cremation diamond, we employ only the best and most reliable practises to culminate in perfection for the whole process of making memorial diamond from cremation ashes. That said, we add a healthy dose of passion and commitment to creating each and every cremation diamond that comes out of our lab.

Ashes to Diamonds: Step 1

Upon our receiving of your signed Purchasing Order Form, you will be issued with a Heart In Diamond ID number, which you can use to track the status of your order through an Order Tracking page.

Once the human hair,animal hair, cremation ashes or other cremated remains * is arrived at the laboratory, the sample undergoes the process of analysis. The purpose of the analysis is to define the chemical composition and extract the carbon out of the hair or ashes.
*0.5 - 2 grams of hair or 100 grams of ashes are required for creation of your memorial diamond.

Ashes to Diamonds: Step 2

After the analysis of sample(hair or ashes) is completed, the carbon contained within will be extracted and added to the diamond growing foundation, out of which a unique crystalline matrix will grow, creating a memory diamond.

Ashes to Diamonds: Step 3

The mixture is placed in the core of the HPHT (High Pressure High Temperature) machine. This unique and complex machinery will recreate diamond-growing conditions, similar to those deep in the Earth's crust where typical HPHT conditions are in excess of 2000°C and 60,000 atmospheres, that will be applied to grow your cremation diamond.

Ashes to Diamonds: Step 4

After the growth phase of the cremation diamond is completed, our specialists will polish and cut the cremation diamond in accordance to industry standards to accommodate your request.

Ashes to Diamonds: Step 5

After the cremation diamond or hair diamond is cut and polished, it goes through our strict quality control and grading processes. When all the aforementioned is done, we issue an Authenticity Certificate containing all the details about your cremation diamond.

As you can see, your Heart In Diamond goes through many stages of development before it becomes a cremation diamond. It requires between 70 to 120 days (depending on the Purchase Option), from the moment we receive the hair, ashes, or other cremated remains samples at our laboratory in order to create and deliver the memorial diamond to your doorstep.

Ashes to Diamonds: Gemology Certificate

Cremation diamonds we made are identified as real diamonds and graded by such world's foremost authorities on diamonds like the European Gemological Laboratory (EGL), the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), or the International Gemological Institute (IGI).
Every diamonds from ashes equal to or bigger than 0.25 carat can be accompanied by an independent gemological certificate provided by the International Gemological Institute (IGI).
Certificates of gemological laboratories are available on request and subject to additional charge and timing.

Please click the images below to see the certification sample:

Every cremation diamond we made is a certified 100% real diamond (certified by Gemological Institutes, such as GIA, IGI, EGL, NGTC)

Price of Cremation Diamonds

Please check the price of ashes to diamonds：Ashes to Diamonds: Price

Why Heart In Diamond?

Heart In Diamond has more than 10 years’ experience in turning human ashes into diamonds. To achieve the most reliable and professional service, our laboratory researchers and PHDs has been developing and improving this technology with the best of their effort.

Worldwide, only Heart In Diamond has the technology to grow white diamond to one carat or even two carat. The white memorial diamond is the purest, with the most difficult and highest technology.

According to the international 4Cs diamond grading system, Heart In Diamond’s diamonds reaches a high clarity of vvs1, which means it is among the most beautiful diamonds in the world. Regarding the diamond growing HPHT technology, Heart In Diamond is the absolute expert in the entire world.

Without adding any other elements, Heart In Diamond uses HPHT technology to naturally obtain diamonds of different colors by setting different environment of different pressure and temperature. Around the world, only Heart In Diamond has this highest technology to grow diamonds with beautiful colors to 2 carats.

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